Spider Robinson Quotations

If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first...

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

It took me better than a quarter century to learn, the hard way, that hard work at something you want to be doing is the most fun that you can have out of bed . . . to learn that the smart man finds ways to make everything he does be work; to learn that "leisure" time is truly pleasurable (indeed tolerable) only to the extent that is its subconscious grazing for information with which to infuse newer, better work.

Librarians are like crack dealers when it comes to hooking small children.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Euphemisms are for the differently brained.

And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.

To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called — and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late!

The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.

And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?